Cross Worlds (Hiatus)

Zoudor's Injustice Arc: Fin (Author's Note)

Hello! It's been a little while since I last spoke to my readers directly like this...

Two and a half years since the last arc ended, huh?

I think...it's only fair that I give you guys some sort of explanation. After all, I've been saying how I've been wanting to finish Cross Worlds for a long long time now, and well, that definitely hasn't happened yet, has it?

Though I would like to put the blame solely on everything that has happened in my life since this arc began, I can't do that. A lot of the blame is also solely on me. I lost a lot of motivation for writing this series because, as you all know by now, it's a rewrite. I got lazy. I kept imagining scenarios for future works when I haven't even finished this one yet. Safe to say it's long overdue, but I'm sorry.

I can't promise that the change will come quick, but I can promise that I will do my best to change. I want to truly finish Cross Worlds once and for all and take my writing career much more seriously from here on out.

However...there are a lot of scary things happening in the world right now. Even recently it's been really hard for me to focus on writing when it feels like I should be doing something more meaningful to prepare for what the future might bring. Except, there isn't much I can do with what I have at my disposal right now.

So, I'm merely going to get on the grind as much as I can. I said it once I've said it a thousand times, I want to make 2025 my year. Even if it turns out to be a pretty crappy year for the rest of the world, I at least want to do everything I can to make sure it's a good year for me to improve on myself and get on that grind mindset. I've wasted far too much time being lazy, procrastinating, and losing motivation in myself.

I know very well I will still have my days where I'll have to say, "sorry everyone, no chapter this week", or something of that sort. Even so, I'm going to do my best to limit that phrase as much as I can this year. First step to accomplishing that? Writing streams!

Y'all don't have to come to them, but having people watch over me while I silently work and listen to music (or just having a nice atmosphere going in the background) will really help me. At least, in the sense that, if I know people are watching, I'll mentally feel like I need to get a good amount of work done so I don't disappoint my dear viewers (My Soarcerers as I like to call them on Twitch ;3).

I'm hoping that things will change for Cross Worlds with these next two arcs in particular. They will both be brand new arcs that weren't originally in the first adaptation of the story! That'll most certainly get my creative juices flowing. I already know what I want to do for both of these arcs...mostly. I've got a basic layout of what I want to happen, but there's still lots to think about. That and I need to connect them to the arcs that come after that DID initially happen in Cross Worlds.

The last thing I want to say is that, well, since Cross Worlds has started to become so long, it only makes sense to tell you all now. Cross Worlds is now most certainly going to have to be broken up into two books.

It's absolutely insane to me that just by deciding to not limit myself to any sort of word count chapter by chapter, Cross Worlds Reboot has become almost as long as the first adaptation. And we've only gone through half of the original story!

I already have an idea on where this book should cut off and what to call "part 2" of Cross Worlds, so I hope you guys are excited! It'll be a little while before we get there, but I'm praying on my hands and knees that I can force myself to really lock in this year and get this first Cross Worlds book finished before the end of the year.

That's all I wanted to say everyone. Thank you for reading my story, it means a lot to an aspiring writer like me, and I can't wait to see where we go from here! Happy 2025 everyone! (Ignore the fact it's February...)

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